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Standing on the bank of a dried-up reservoir behind the Ouyen Golf Course, Simon Grigg squints his eyes and imagines the future. We see boats, we see a little caravan park perhaps, we see cabins, we see tents, we see camping sites, we see barbeques, we see lawn areas, we see just a wonderful social ...

Originally from Melbourne before jumping into regional Victoria, Joseph has loved spending the past couple of years producing the Statewide Drive program in Ballarat, where he feels he has gotten to travel the state a bit without leaving his desk. His favourite part of the job is connecting with ...

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Australia is notorious for being the home of a huge number of the world's most venomous animals funnelweb spiders, box jellyfish and brown snakes among them. And the venoms these animals possess have evolved for thousands, even millions of years. They're very complicated and scientists are now ...

The invention of the microphone changed music, both live and recorded, forever. Artists like Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby made full use of it by introducing a new restrained style of singing, commonly known as crooning. Before then they either had to sing loudly to be heard over ...

Social media has become a seemingly ubiquitous part of our daily lives. Just about anybody can send a tweet or update a blog and claim authorship. But are there now too many voices all trying to be heard and all convinced that their view is the only one that matters and does this drive people to only look ...

The death of liberalism is a popular topic. Over the last century there have been countless books and conferences on it but does that make it so? A new article argues that 'modern democratic governments are founded on liberal principles meant to create the basis of a fair and just society... They're ...

Are you slightly envious of your best friend, sibling or partner? It doesn't mean you don't love them, after all, as Sara Protasi explains, envy is the dark side of love and love is the luminous side of envy. But can you feel envious of people you don't know well or haven't even met? Aristotle observed ...